Melanin and fungi

BL Gómez, JD Nosanchuk - Current opinion in infectious diseases, 2003 - journals.lww.com
… Pigmented fungi are increasingly important human pathogens and currently available … recent
publications on melanin in fungi with particular reference to the role of melanin in virulence, …

Melanin of fungi: From classification to application

R Liu, X Meng, C Mo, X Wei, A Ma - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2022 - Springer
… Thus, the chemical modification methods of fungal melanin are … fungal melanin has been
used in many industries, as the structure and function of fungal melanin and modified melanin

The role of melanin in fungal pathogenesis for animal hosts

DFQ Smith, A Casadevall - Fungal physiology and immunopathogenesis, 2019 - Springer
… In this essay, we focus on the role of melanin on fungal pathogenesis in animals. We
note that melanin also has important in fungal pathogenesis for plants, particularly in fungal

Fungal melanin: what do we know about structure?

JD Nosanchuk, RE Stark, A Casadevall - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… in our studies of fungal melanin because this yeast-like fungus requires the addition of …
our current knowledge on the structure of fungal melanin. Fungal Melanin and the Cell Wall …

Synthesis and assembly of fungal melanin

HC Eisenman, A Casadevall - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
… In addition, it plays a role in fungal pathogenesis. Melanin is an amorphous polymer that is
produced by one of two synthetic pathways. Fungi may synthesize melanin from endogenous …

Functions of fungal melanin beyond virulence

RJB Cordero, A Casadevall - Fungal Biology Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
… studied in the various fungal melanins. Given the large number of melanotic species and
biosynthetic pathways for melanin production, it is likely that fungal melanins express a variety …

Production of melanin pigment by fungi and its biotechnological applications

SR Pombeiro-Sponchiado, GS Sousa, JCR Andrade… - Melanin, 2017 - books.google.com
… Apart from the scavenging activity, melanin exhibits other … affect the pigment production
in fungi and the manipulation of … of the research on fungal melanin, including the recently dis…

Distributions of fungal melanin across species and soils

CE Siletti, CA Zeiner, JM Bhatnagar - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
… of fungi predict melanin production across fungal taxa and if melanin content of fungal
We hypothesized that 1) melanin production in hyphae varies across the fungal phylogeny, …

Melanin

RJB Cordero, A Casadevall - Current biology, 2020 - cell.com
… Example of animal melanin seen in the fur of a … melanin is observed when a yellow plantain
turns black over time, triggered by phenoloxidase enzymes. Examples of fungal melanin

Comparisons of fungal melanin biosynthesis in ascomycetous, imperfect and basidiomycetous fungi

MH Wheeler - Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 1983 - Elsevier
… these melanin substrates, and melanin biosynthesis in these fungi was not affected by
tricyclazole. Thus, many ascomycetous and related imperfect fungi appear to make melaninfungi